Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-02-18
a magnificent reach of country.

give you BRITAIN, LIZ SlVeJe'ti an ti1o " o+Sta
What humiliation it must have been.
Goto-morrow morning and get IN an alter
cation. with some wretch crawling up from =
gin cellar in the Fourth ward New York
ssNo,p YOU say, II would not bemean myself
by getting into such a contest Then think
of what the King of heaven and earth en-
-dured when he came down and fought that
great wretch of hell, and fought him in the
wilderness and onthetop of the temple. Bat
bless God that in that triumph over tempta-
! ton Christgiyes us the assurance that we also
shall triumph. Having himself been tempted,
he is able to succor all those who are tempted.
In violent storm at sea the mate told
boy-for the rigging had become entangled
in the mast-to go up and right it. a gentle
man standing on the deck said: Don't send
that boy up; he will be dashed to DEATH The
mate said: 81 know what l am about The
: boy raised his hat in recognition of the order,
and then rose hand over hand. and went to
work; and as he swung in the storm the pas
sengers wrung their hands and expected to
see him fall sThe work done, he came
down in safety, and Christian man said to
him: why did you go down in the fore
castle before you went up?" eAh," said the
boy, 81 went down to pray. My mother
ALWAYS taught me before Undertook any
thing great to pray" sWhat is that you
have in your vest?" said the man. 20, that
is the New Testament, " he said, II thought =
would carry it with me if l rea111u
overheard How well the
tected / care not he
how vast the de-
and Christ II
and Christ all ard
us in the way of
having been in the tempe
those who put their trust in e.
His glorious name forever.
The third installment paid for --s7s.
2s1ts,, YVES the ,ssvio,ss- Flu trial calf
{ a snatr, trial hiss never bSoI any thin
SO indece..s L r. the Tonbs court b
New York as sA@sayvitnessed at the tT1l
Christ. Why, rhey hustled Him .
court room at Q o'clock in the morning
gave Him no time for counsel? Til
Him no opportunity for subpoena
pesses The ruffians who were W.
around through the midnight of course
saw the arrest and went into the court rooN
But Jesus friends were sober men, were rsA
spectacle men, and at that hour, o'clock lny
the morning, of course they were at home
asleep. Consequently Christ entered the
court room with the ruffians.
Oh. look at Hml No one to speak a word
for Him. lift the lantern until can look
into His face, and as my heart beats in SYM
pathy for this. the best friend the world
ever had Himself now utterly friendless, an
officer of the court room comes up and stnites&
Him in the mouth, and see the blood steal !
ing from gum and lip Oh, it was farce Of |
a trial, lasting only perhaps an hour, and
thsn the judge rises for the sentence! 1t Is
against the law to give sentence unless therev
has been an adjournment of the court bel
tween condemnation and sentence; but what
cares this judge for the laws @Thex
mau has no friends-let him dfe, says
the judge, and the ruffians outside the
rail cry: "Ahai ahal that's what we
want-His blood. Hand him out here to us.
Away with himl away with himl Oh, I bless
God that amid all the injustice that may be
inflicted upon us in this world we have a di-
vine sympathizer. The world cannot lie
about you nor abuse you as much as they did
Christ and Jesus stands to-day in every
court room, in every home, in every store.
and says: "Couragel By all my hours OF
maltreatment and abuse, I will protect those
who are trampled on.n And when Christ
forgets that 2 o'clock morning scene, and tae
stroke of the rufian on the mouth, and the
bowling of the unwashed crowd, then He will
forget you and me in the injustices of life
that may be inflicted upon u.s.
Some of you want deliverance from your
troubles God knows you have enough Of
them Physical troubles, domestic troubles,
spiritual troubles, financial troubles. You
have been gathering them up, some perhaps
for five, or SIX or seven years, and you. have
them divided into two classes-those you can
talk about and those you cannot talk about;
and as those griefs are the most grinding aud
depressing which you cannot mention, you get
coincidence for the things you can speak of,
while you get no coincidence for the things
that you cannot. In your school days you
learned how to bound the states. and could
tell what rivers anu lakes and Mountains ran
through them. II you were asked to-day
to bound your worldly estate you would
say it is bounded on the north by trouble, and
OIL the south by trouble, and on the east by
| trouble and on the west by trouble, while
rivers Of tears and lakes of woe and noun
tainsof disaster run through it. What are
you going to do with your troubless Why
do you not go to the theatre and have your
mind absorbed in some tragedy. sOh," you
say, Everything have seen on the boards of
the stage is tame compared with the tragedy
Of my own ifel" Well, then, why re- gou
not so to your trunks and closets and gattos
! Up III the mementoes of your dess 81. q ieids
,sad put them out of si ssa5, s.fa take down
thei} pictures &ss.,n the wall and put
ia ihe frame harvest scene or some
| bright and gay Spectacle? "Ah,n you say,
'if | should remove all these mementoes Of
my departed friends, that would not TAX
away the killing pictures that are hanging h
the gallery of my own heart Well, If th;s
does not help you, why do you not plung
into society and try to wash off in WORLDLY
gayetes oil these ASSIGNMENTS of the SOUL
HOh," you say, II have tried tbatl but hogs
can I hsar other children laugh when MY
children are silent? How can. | see OTHER
happy families when my ON baIpy fanli
Is broken up? Trouble, trollbleln But Dc
you gain anything by brooding over you
misfortunes, by sitting down in dark roobi
by comparison of the sweet past with tbs
bitter present? "No that makes things
worse" But I have to tel you to-day tbs
the Christ of all sympathy presents Himself
Is there anybody in this house that can get
along without sympathy lido not thinf 4
would live a day without.it And vet the
are @ great many 40 seem to get all z
without any divine sympathy Their fort .
in the counting room, OF. in the store,oi q
| the insurance company, takes wings and eieS
away They button up-a penniless poekst
| They sit down i'll penrl.y where once the ns y
| afiuence, and yet there is no Jesus to ssanG
by them and say: sob, man, there are
treasures that never fail, in banks that n ~
| break I will take care of you. | owr ~
| cattle on thousand hills, and you ska
want" They have no such divine Saviour
| say that to them. I do not lHow heT
they get along. Death comes 70 As
nursery One voice less in ths Ael#
| hold One less. fountain of JOY aass
| laughter Two hands less o.be busy all Dc 4.
Two feetssless 30 bound through the
| Shadow after shadow following threSx
Household. yet no Jesus to stand there s
| Il am the shepherd That lamb IS zig X
took it off the cold mountains. Aus wA \
Y t.saanypp uelAmesysbe mystery Car An
iIasblveit3 Ten me howsgiE IS, that p5eA 4sf
rs oLqen WITH aches, and pains IN.
sFsssss and 1oSses, and CONSIDERATION. a2s.
eSeaSefasats can aget lalo9se Wit s1t
pathizing Christas I caIft5s understs
But come here to saS Ills alot o. " tiiaA S
yon really want divine sympatsy yoa ss
have it. There are two or three passages 1T
Scripture that throb a'itts pity @Dd zindaes.